On 10/04/2016 12:35 PM, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
On Tue, Oct 04, 2016 at 12:05:50PM -0600, Martin Sebor wrote:
While backporting a patch for 77804 to the gcc-6-branch I noticed
that the DejaGnu relative number patch below is not available
there (the new test failed). Is it worth backporting it to it?
https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2016-09/msg01617.html
Dunno, some people tend to backport testsuite infrastructure improvements,
but one still has to test stuff on the release branches anyway, so adjusting
to older infrastructure isn't that hard either.
So, I'd leave such a decision to the testsuite maintainers if somebody is
willing to test the backport of the patch.
I ran the C++ test suite with the patch with no unexpected failures
before proposing it. I'm willing to run the rest of it if Mike and
Rainer (CC'd) think it's worth the effort. I don't know how many
more 6.x releases to expect and don't have a sense of how many bug
fixes tend to get backported into each so I fully defer to others
on this decision.
Martin
